Travel Blogs from Cortez

The ancient enemies of the Navajos were the Pueblo (Anasazi). They inhabited the more forgiving highlands of the Mesa Verde in nearby Colorado. They too, have left an indelible impression upon the lands which they resided, although where they ...

... which spreads out into all four of the Four Corners states is the largest one in America and is basically a country within the UnitedStates. 200,000 native Navajo live here. We were headed to the town of Chinle which is the gateway to Canyon De Chelly ...

... excellent.
If you have never heard of Mesa Verde then it is somewhere you should go if you are ever coming to the States. It is a remarkable place. The Puebloan Indians built sandstone-block houses into the side of the cliffs way up high under the ...

... the faint hearted I can tell you.
So we turned back as we had no other way of continuing in this direction.
We reached Cortez mid-afternoon having stopped at a place called Bluff to see the remains of an old Mormon settlement where we saw a real old ...